Model Male

"No one has more respect for the artistic value of a pretty girl than I, but in this girl-made era we are forgetting the fact that artistically and historically, the male of the species is of some importance. . . . "Mr. Stone seems to me to represent the genuine, clean-minded, keen young man of today in these United States. Every girl will have a candidate for this honor, but if she looks at the portrait I have done of Mr. Stone she is more likely to see more than a trace of that ideal young man whose picture she carries in her heart." The speaker was Thomas Casilear Cole, who had 35 paintings on exhibition at the Ainslie Galleries, Manhattan, last week. He was particularly pleased with his "Portrait of a Typical American Young Man" and his model--Melville E. Stone III, 22, grandson of the onetime general manager of the Associated Press, son of the late Herbert S. Stone, who was drowned when the Lusitania was sunk. The portrait was made two years ago when young Mr. Stone left Yale and commenced to sell bonds for Lee, Higginson & Co. of Chicago. No doubt, his mail will soon be choked with sentimental gush from shop girls, waitresses, home girls, hoydens; with offers of vaudeville and cinema contracts.